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... dressmakers; but if you suppose for a moment that she doesn’t give herself away in every sentence she utters, you must be perfectly cracked about her” (64). Pervious to this, after months of work with Eliza’s accent and pronunciation she is introduced to higher class people, who did not know she was of a lower class. Although she spoke beautifully and dressed like a lady, the things she said were not ones of a lady. Mrs Higgins, (Professor Higgins’s mother) tells her son and Pickering that despite the changes and improvement they have made in her, there are certain aspects that are innate in her and cannot be changed. 3) “LIZA: What’s to become of me? What’s to become of me? HIGGINS: How the devil do I know what’s to become of you? What does it matter what’s to become of you? LIZA: You don’t care. I know you don’t care, you wouldn’t care if I was dead. I’m nothing to you- not so much as them slippers” (76). After taking Eliza to the ambassador’s garden party, (like he said he would when he first met her). At the party people not only thought she was of a high class, they were sure she was of royal blood because of her perfect pronunciation. They all worked hard for this moment, the experiment was six month’s long and she finally did a wonderful job in winning their bet, and the deal was that after six month’s of work she would leave. But after living with Higgins she has an attachment to him, she sees him as a father figure, and is afraid that he will throw her out just like her father did to her. She doesn’t think he cares about her (although in his own way he does). She doesn’t feel that her hard work is appreciated, and Higgins has a hard time showing affection to her, and doesn’t understand this sudden outburst of worry and emotion, he doesn’t know how to react to it. 5) “MRS HIGGINS:…She has become attached to you both. She worked very hard for you, Henry. I don’t think you quite realize what anything in the nature of brain work means to a girl of her class. Well, it seems that when this great day of trial came, and she did this wonderful ...

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